Farm Laws Repeal: A timeline on how farmers' protests led up to Modi's historic announcement

A pictorial timeline documenting the ten milestones in the farmers' protests and agitation against the contentious agricultural reform laws.

September 27, 2020: Farm Bills receive presidential assent and are notified in the Gazette of India, becoming Farm Laws. (Photo | EPS) 

November 25, 2020: Farmers’ unions in Punjab and Haryana gave the call for a ‘Delhi Chalo’ movement. (Photo | EPS)

November 28, 2020: Farmers reject Home Minister Amit Shah's offer to hold talks on the condition they vacate Delhi borders and move to the designated protest site in Burari. (Photo | EPS)

December 8, 2020: Farmers gave a call for Bharat Bandh. Protests intensified country-wide, with farmers from other states giving their support to the call. (Photo | EPS)

December 11, 2020: Bharatiya Kisan Union moved the Supreme Court against the farm laws. (Photo | EPS)

January 12, 2021: The Supreme Court stayed the implementation of the three farm laws and set up a four-member committee to make recommendations on them after consulting all parties concerned. (Photo | EPS)

January 26, 2021: On Republic Day, thousands of anti-farm-law protestors clashed with the police during the tractor parade called by farmer unions. The Red Fort was stormed and the Nishan Sahib flag was hoisted. (Photo | EPS)

August 7, 2021: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi along with other opposition parties leaders visited Kisan Sansad at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to lend their support to the protesting farmers. (Photo | EPS)

October 3, 2021: An SUV, allegedly belonging to Ashish Mishra, the son of Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni ran over protesting farmers, killing five people at Lakhimpur Kheri in UP. (Photo | PTI)

November 19, 2021: On Gurpurab, Prime Minister Modi announces that all three farm laws will be repealed in the Winter session of the Parliament. (Photo | EPS)